• Select an ACO from the website ACOs in Your State in this week’s Learning Resources. Link below

https://baycarephysicianpartners.org/content/aco/

• Identify evidence-based services/initiatives that the ACO is using.
• Consider the following:
  • Is the ACO using services/initiatives that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recognize and for which they offer reimbursements?
  • How does the ACO market these services/initiatives to increase health care consumerism?
  • In a matrix, analyze evidence-based services/initiatives that the ACO you selected is using for each of the following:
    • Quality of care
    • IT
    • Marketing
    • Financial outcomes
    • Population health programs
    • Vertical versus horizontal integration
    • Operational excellence

    Include whether the ACO is using approaches that CMS recognizes for reimbursements and how these initiatives/services increase health care consumerism.Synthesize the information you have gathered from your analysis so that each bullet point clearly represents the most significant considerations within each category. While this is a 1-page document that might appear to be simple, each point must be the result of deep and critical thinking.